Wednesday, October 8, 2014

There's nothing like the State Fair of Texas. It's Americana at it's finest, and entering the cooking contests is something we look forward to every year.

Lifestylist® Suzanne Felber has had a great fair this year - she's already won 4 blue ribbons! It take a lot of time and energy coming up with new recipes and concepts, and we'll be sharing those recipes on the Lifestylist website.

Friday, May 4, 2012

Summer is definitely here, and it's heating up in Texas. I turn into a really lazy cook when it gets so hot, and we do the Lifestylist® version of a salad bar many evenings.

Everything
gets prepped - even the kids help plate their favorite ingredients
-then we put everything on the island and people make their own salads
as big or small as they choose.

I've stopped buying the bagged lettuce and greens because they are expensive and taste like chemicals to me. With the OXO
Salad Spinner you can easily use heads of lettuce, spin them and even
serve them in the bowl of the spinner. The kids love to help, and it's
fast and easy for me.

To win won of these great products from OXO, go to the Lifestylist® Food blog and enter. there are 7 different ways you can get additional entries, and winner will be announced on May 11th.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

There's
nothing better than a fresh salad using produce from my garden and my
local farmers market. I love just setting out all of the prepped
ingredients and letting people make their own salads to suit their
tastes.

Texas isn't known for their lettuce though, so being the Lazy Cook
that I am, I've been buying bagged greens so there's no work involved.
I've been finding lately though that many of these have a chemical taste
to them, and they are expensive! The salad spinner I've had is a pain
in the neck - it's messy, hard to clean and doesn't seem to really spin
much of the water off.

Leave it to OXO to have the perfect solution - their Good Grips Salad Spinner.
It is so well designed it's actually fun to use! OXO must have a lot of
engineers on their team because not only do they include great features
in their products, they are features that perform perfectly. It seems
to be a very thoughtful company that truly cares about giving us
thoughtful products that can make our time in the kitchen more
productive and enjoyable. The basket and pumping device
of the salad spinner are so well balanced you actually use a brake
button to slow down and stop the spinning. It has a non-slip base that
keeps it in place on the counter, and since you pump with a downward
motion you can use it one-handed or have the kids help you out in the
kitchen. My grand kids love using it to wash and spin the spinach for
their favorite "Say Cheese Spinach Bake" that we make together. Not only
has it helped them enjoy working with me in the kitchen, it has also
gotten them to like spinach!Now for more great news. OXO
has not only sent one of these super salad spinners to me to try out,
they have also sent us another one that I can give away to one of my
lucky readers. All you have to do is leave a comment below as to what
unique way you will use your new salad spinner. There will also be some
ways that you can earn extra chances to win including "liking" the OXO and LifeStyleList
Facebook pages. The contest will run through May 18th 2012, and if the
winner doesn't respond to us within 24 hours of being notified we will
choose another winner.

You need to be a resident of
the US and over 18 yrs. old to enter. This contest has no affiliation
with Facebook. OXO provided the two salad spinners to us at no charge,
and the opinions are our own.

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About The Lifestylist®

Lifestylist® Suzanne Felber prefers to take the road less traveled and share those experiences with her her friends and followers.

After trademarking the term Lifestylist in 2001, Felber has made a committment to help others find their "inner-stylists".

She lives and works at The Home Idea Factory - a 1941 printing factory in Oak Cliff Texas with a rich historical past. She and photographer Lisa Stewart Photography use the space as a place to try out and photograph new ideas and share them with their clients.